Antique style cameras installed to capture the changing landscapes through your camera
Three antique style ‘fixed point’ cameras have been installed across the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as part of a citizen science project to document the changing landscape thanks to support from the Sustainable Landscapes Sustainable Places Fund.
Cameras at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Loggerheads Country Park and on the Prestatyn to Dyserth old railway line mean they are accessible by all in some of the most picturesque settings.
The project is asking members of the public to take a photo through these cameras and uploading it to Instagram using #CRDV_AONB to tag their photo into the project. By doing so photos will add to a growing online dataset of images capturing the seasonal, land management and climatic changes of this outstanding landscape.
The ambition for the project is that over time as more photos are added, changes in the landscape will become apparent as you scroll through images taken in different months or years. All the sites chosen have the potential to change through conservation management practices, whether they be removing invasive non-native species, managing woodland or conservation grazing.
The Sustainable Landscapes Sustainable Places (SLSP) fund, administered through the Welsh Government and Tirweddau Cymru Landscapes Wales, is a programme of capital investment across Wales’s eight Designated Landscapes, enabling them to contribute to key Welsh Government objectives around promoting biodiversity and nature recovery, accelerating decarbonisation, supporting resilient and green communities and delivering sustainable tourism.
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